North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring annouces Agricultural Products Utilization Commission awards for eight projects in ND.
APUC is a program of the North Dakota Department of Agriculture that administers grant programs for research and development of new and expanded uses for North Dakota agricultural products.
Grant funds can be used for basic and applied research, marketing and utilization, farm diversification, nature-based agritourism, prototype and technology and technical assistance.
The following where awarded grant funds:
- Three Farm Daughters, LLLP to produce and develop a line of high fiber resistant starch and reduced gluten food products.
- BisMan Community Food Cooperative to support marketing efforts and local producers video profiles to attract more customers.
- Chef Heather, LLC to organize a week full of events and ideas to highlight different ways to support the local food system.
- Cloverdale Foods Company to increase bacon production yield utilizing existing space, design and patent bacon specific tools and expand capabilities within the existing facility.
- Dakota College at Bottineau for an applied research project to identify and develop varieties of industrial CBD hemp cultivars that will perform well in the North Dakota climate.
- Hygge Hills to add a train feature for their on-farm agriculture tourism business.
- The North Dakota State University Civil Engineering Department to identify new uses and add value for oregano and related high phenolic crops grown in North Dakota.
- Ringside, LLC to market an app used to track and promote livestock as they show and sell across the United States.
The next grant application hearing on July 21-22, 2020, in Medora, applications must be reacived by July 1, 2020.
Prototype and technical assistance applications must be received by Sept. 1 for the Nov. 18-19, 2020, meeting.
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